This web site allows you to consult a database of computer-related acronyms.
Through this application you can navigate alphabetically through acronyms,
search for specific acronyms or define new ones.
If you don't know how to proceed, please consult the instructions, otherwise
you can select an operation from the list on the main menu.

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The acronym versus abbreviation diatribe

Sometimes, we receive mail from language purist that (correctly)
point out that what we collect here are not, for the most part,
acronyms but abbreviations. Let's take a look at the definitions
(from the Merriam-Webster dictionary, http://www.webster.com):

acronym:
a word (as NATO, radar, or snafu) formed from the initial
letter or letters of each of the successive parts or major parts
of a compound term.

abbreviation:
a shortened form of a written word or phrase used in place of the
whole (amt is an abbreviation for amount).

The fact is, in the information technology context people tend to
use the term "acronym" in a broad sense, i.e. encompassing
abbreviations. As an empirical demonstration, people who come to
this site using a search engine and searching for "acronyms"
account for nearly 99% of all visits originating from a search.

When in this site you encounter the word "acronym" we mean any
term that results from consecutively taking some letters from a
definition.